Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

TAC Meeting

November 02, 2006
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
ERCOT Austin 206
7620 Metro Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78744
Dial-In: 512.225.7280
Dial-In Code: 0524
Agenda
1. Antitrust Admonition R. Comstock 9:30 a.m.
2. Approval of the Draft October 6, 2006 TAC Meeting Minutes (Vote)* R. Comstock 9:35 a.m.
3. ERCOT Board Update*
  • Project Management Office Update*
 M. Dreyfus
T. Anderson		 9:40 a.m.
4. Post Market Participant Default Collection Process A. Gallo 10:30 a.m.
5. Protocol Revisions Subcommittee Report*
  • Report on PRS discussion of PRR/SCR System Change Moratorium*
  • Nodal Protocol Revision Requests:
  • Protocol Revision Requests:
    • PRR677, Substitute Source for Fuel Index Price (FIP) (Vote)*
    • PRR681, Discontinuation of Interest Charge for Defaulting Entities at Time of Uplift (see NPRR017) (Vote)*
    • PRR684, Mass Transition Process Necessary for PUCT Rule 31416 (Vote)*
    • PRR689, Down Balance Qualification for Renewable Resources (Vote)*
  • PRR Withdrawal:
    • PRR553, Scheduling Trading Hubs (Vote)*
  • Notice of PRR Rejection:
    • PRR680, Procurement of Capacity for Load Forecast Uncertainty*
    • PRR692, Corrections to Replacement Reserve Service*
 K. Gresham 10:45 a.m.
  • Constellation NewEnergy Appeal of PRS Decision on PRR692 (Vote)*
 V. Priestley
6. Texas Nodal Implementation - TPTF Report*
  • Updated Training Materials:
    • Training Class Curriculum*
    • Market Participant Training Readiness*
  • Approval of Milestones - Completed Business Requirements:
    • Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) (Vote)*
    • Commercial Operations Business Requirements:
      • Real Time CRR (Vote)*
      • CRR Balancing Account (Vote)*
      • CRR Auction Settlement (Vote)*
      • Reliability Must-Run Settlement (Vote)*
      • Statements (Vote)*
      • Invoices (Vote)*
      • Financial Transfer (Vote)*
      • Credit Monitoring (Vote)*
 T. Doggett 11:30 a.m.
Lunch 12:00 p.m.
Texas Nodal Implementation (Continued)
  • ERCOT Report*
 R. Hinsley 1:00 p.m.
7. Commercial Operations Subcommittee Report* B. Flowers 1:30 p.m.
8. Retail Market Subcommittee Report*
  • RMGRR041, Safety-Net Revisions Necessary for PUCT Project 29637 (Vote)*
 S. Bowling 2:00 p.m.
9. Wholesale Market Subcommittee Report*
  • 2007 Ancillary Service Methodology (Vote)*
  • 2007 CRE Recommendation (Vote)*
 B. Belk 2:15 p.m.
  • Emergency Interruptible Load Program Taskforce Update*
 M. Bruce
10. Reliability and Operations Subcommittee Report*
  • PRR682, Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) Event Realignment - URGENT (Vote)*
  • OGRR187, Conforming Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) Operating Guide Language with Protocol Language - URGENT (Vote)*
  • Nodal Non-Spinning Reserve Service Deployment Procedure (Vote)*
 P. Breitzman 2:45 p.m.
11. Operations Update 3:15 p.m.
  • Fuel Oil Survey Report*
 K. Saathoff
  • CREZ Transmission Studies Update
 D. Woodfin
  • Regional Entity Update
 S. Jones
  • Q&A on September Scores Related to SCE Performance and Monitoring*
 L. Grimm
12. Other Business
  • 2007 TAC Meeting Dates
 R. Comstock 4:15 p.m.
Adjourn R. Comstock 4:30 p.m.
Future TAC Meetings
Future Meetings
Additional Information
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Key Documents


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